Near Sewage Works
IndustrialHousehold
Near Sewage Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency. It received industrial and household waste between 1967 and 1970, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD13917, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13917 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Near Sewage Works |
| Address | Barmouth, Gwnedd |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 4 March 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 March 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1967 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northern CY |
| Grid reference | 260800, 316400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.